High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale: Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial

William Dougan, Jorge Luis Garcia () and Illia Polovnikov
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Illia Polovnikov: Boston College

No 16442, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains in short-term cognition and age-18 non-cognitive skills were comparable to those of the Perry Preschool and Carolina Abecedarian Projects, supporting those programs' scalability. For twins, however, the program generated smaller positive short-term gains and negative age-18 impacts. These outcome differences arise from differences in parents' response to the program. A household production model suggests that the possibility of jointly supplying parenting to twins helps explain those differences.

Keywords: childcare; early childhood education; large-scale randomized trial; parental investment; parenting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 H43 I28 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2023-09
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